“Who cares if you get free soft drinks or not? What really matters is what the work is like [at your employer].

“20 to 25% of the queries we see today, we have never seen before

“Large systems suck. This rule is 100% transitive. If you build one, you suck.

“It is a sad fact that most schools don’t require you to take compilers in order to graduate with a Computer Science degree.

“The bayonet stems directly from the various forms of polearm. It was obviously inappropriate to have a firearm-bearing soldier encumbered by a pike, yet there was need for a polearm to stand off cavalry.. The original “bayonnette” - the name came from the town of its supposed origin, Bayonne in France - was introduced into the French Army in 1647.

“Darcs is dead to me. The software itself is broken: you can’t have common operations on large datasets requiring exponential or even polynomial time. Its development process is broken: there is no planning, a constant stream of pet features added, no focus on fixing the real issues. The source code is an unreadable, undocumented mess (and not because it’s in Haskell).

“One misses nothing that one has never possessed.

“Don’t focus on getting acquired. That’s like being a single woman who desperately wants to get married.

“..the interviews are very well-done: they let the programmer speak, yet the interviewer keeps them on track.